1. Mobile Cb. Ball playing Cb. If we can get one player who does both great.2. Deputy / replacement for both full backs. Youth, pace and the ability to cross the ball needed.3. Forward thinking central midfielder. We have plenty of energy and plenty of safe sideways merchants, we need a string puller desperately.4. Pace. I know bolassie is due back, but a natural widemen capable of playing at pace and committing opposition defenders are absolutely vital in the prem. Zaha would be my first choice, Redmond plan B.

I suppose whoever we get in will need what he needs, he may have a different view on the squad or whatever, but from a squad building POV youth, athletic ability and pure pace will always give you options to shape something with.

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Likes...

Not as clear as it was really, because we don't know what the new man would need.

Looking at it from pure want-what-we-don't-have; we don't have any sort of hold up play, we also don't have any sort of link-up play and we also don't have any sort of pace...

So we add any of that, we do it for the right reasons, and we do it in a coherent strategy of building a team in a certain direction then great news. However if we hire like a pressing manager and add a slow lump, we're possibly fucked.

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